antigovernment fury. after the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. the ruling party. president of reporter fifty four countries of helping america's rendition program which included detention without charge and the torture of terrorist suspects. one of the german chancellor's main political rivals. greece. starter's orders. what's become the most. in history we were poor.

live from moscow this is our. program. police have clashed with protesters. attacked the offices of the ruling islamist party thousands of taking to the streets across the country to protest against the government and the public followed the assassination of the leading opposition figure. holding the power elite responsible the opposition is called for a general strike and is suspending its membership in the country's lawmaking body. journalist who. brought us the latest reaction from the. shock and consider this as

a criminal act this is the first time this kind of fancy nation happened between egypt so people you know they protested you know they are in the streets. most of them they are in. front of the ministry of interior and you know i get a good feel of the shame. and. many of the offices of the ruling party everywhere i mean anger is prevailing and people are very very very angry and sad. about the. victims until now you know. people just spontaneously. protesting in the street. international relations professor. until the upcoming elections to take place.

the tension between the opposition and the ruling party ennahda has been growing for elections in a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy and religious take in those days i was a general and in addition to the tourist business has been dramatically cut hotels empty until you have factories that used to be supplied components to european companies shot unemployment is rising to this it had been presented as the nearest thing to a success story there had been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these deep distant disappointments with the failure to make life better life has got worse and the sense that there is a check true that takes many people ingenuity away from them to tension about the coming elections and whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps change around one problem the poor ocean is here is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that it's

rather neglected by the west as nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so its regimes fall to column e. is now in a nosedive and it's surrounded by increasingly tense errors to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the north this is as we were trying to position between engines. this is r.t. now fifty four countries helped washington detained transfer and even sometimes tortured terrorist suspects in secret cia prisons according to a top american angio which has released the most detailed account yet of the notorious rendition program details on this dualities guy in a church you can't. this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundations not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another participated in cia secret detention

and extraordinary rendition operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing going to be using it to be jewels assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan australia denmark djibouti huge of georgia turkey syria the united arab emirates the united kingdom yemen italy and even iran and just in case you're wondering what iran is doing on the list here's what the report says a yemeni national hussein solemn mohammad on the fed he was captured by iranian authorities in tehran sometime after nine eleven two thousand and one and once was handed over to afghan authorities as part of a prisoner exchange and was held in cia detention in afghanistan so a list of fifty four countries there while president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges there were more the u.s. government has only identified sixteen quote unquote high value detainees italy is

the only country where a court has criminally has convicted officials for their involvement in extraordinary rendition operations tenet is the only country to issue an apology to twig to an extraordinary rendition victims more here are our who was rendered to and tortured in syria and only three countries in addition to canada and sweden australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation to extraordinary rendition victims this report is ripe with human rights abuses and it's clear that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices any accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. this is artsy it is predictably outcome of this year's general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis and

lead merkel's main challenger the country's former finance minister says she's been simply too harsh on athens investigating this story peter on. the main contender to angola merkel in this year's general election the social democrat party's peacetime brooke has said this his vision for how to deal with the greek problem is to give greece a little bit more time and for everybody else around the world to be essentially willing to spend a little bit more money now that includes germany of course this goes up against what has been angola merkel's message all the way which is that it's all by austerity and by a sturdy alone and cutting that deficit. that greece can get itself financially back on its feet now what is interesting is that in the german elections we're seeing the key battleground becoming greece. now one of the reasons that we've seen the s.t.p. to jump on this is because essentially they smell blood he said himself after the

most recent local elections which took place last month that's change was possible this year and in order and one of the reasons he can say that is his party is absolutely killing angle merkel's coalition when it comes to domestic issues if you speak to the german people one thing they will all tell you what the vast majority will tell you is that they do support angola merkel's view when it comes to dealing with the euro crisis what we're now seeing is peacetime brooke saying i'm going to challenge angela merkel on her own turf and put forward my own theory about how to deal with greece. and france to meet with francois hollande and they'll be taking in the france germany game we will be seeing is those two talking about what they're going to do going into a meeting on thursday where the you'll be looking at where all of the senior partners in europe will be looking to try and decide the european budget for twenty fourteen to twenty twenty now this has been a huge stumbling block for european leaders in the past year we heard from france

warland speaking on tuesday who said that he was ready to try and come to some kind of compromise in the social. warland against the chief cheerleader of a sturdy angela merkel there has been some friction in the past he says all of their major issues that they have are behind them and that they are ready to work together so i expect what we will see is that some kind of solution being put forward by these two how to steer europe towards a definite budget for twenty fourteen to twenty twenty and everybody meets later on thursday. after years of preparations sleepless nights and hard work russian hour something to celebrate tomorrow the official countdown to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics begins the games already broken the record books are becoming the most expensive ever to be staged or farm reports on the changing face of the host city so choose. piece by piece sot she's

a limb picturing is coming together work continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready and . we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price heist in these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the intake history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing

summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which has six families all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this vast hockey arena is prestigious i'm ready for yeas it will stage the under eighteen will championships in april one of two dozen international events that will test all in the venue before the games begin the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool because the limping park is down by the blacks in case their uncle because all the alpine events or take place alone forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was hay before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and

cross-country courses have also been created along with the bulb sleigh track and then there's something you can't fail to meet but if you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men and the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain and coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of road am rail lines have been late and they have transformed salt cheese infrastructure but the city may believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions that have to face during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up

which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. so she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver a gangster remember this time next year. so. it's good to have you with us today just a couple of minutes will be coming with a lack of medical care all about a public inquiry that is on the gulf britain's health care system and a massive negligence and a scandal all the details along with i would have said cal's coming your way very

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just now it's running seven fifteen pm here in the russian capital this is our city the u.k.'s national health care system has been flooded with a wave of public anger this after a recent scandal exposed negligence on the abuse of patients at a major hospital and the findings of a specially commission investigation which details hundreds of people dying in appalling conditions or will be laid before parliament. as the story. that stuff at hospital in september of two thousand and eight was to disaster to

a total chaos when you walk through the door of the world if you smell a. crime no staff available for. those who was left. on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. the. line in a row for you see. maybe carry. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term from the now notorious stuff that hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of their dignity so much evil that sandy would have been described to be nothing more songs. in the most horrible circumstances. no human being she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford

in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital stuffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as the hospital wants it so much that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital's significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages. health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all

across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions is soul destroying. this a bit of stuff that everybody that we've got to make say you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare of a public inquiry the media spotlight hasn't stopped last month that emerged that a former fold baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger

swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t staff it. we can always i say up to date with more news from around the world just by looking into our website or our c dot com a scene right there let's check out just some of the stories standing by for you right now for example of the ever watchful social network and you application being developed for facebook which basically is able to track a user's location even when your unit is switched off and also to boldly go is a courage or is it crazy these are russian solders to taking the plunge diving into a frozen siberian lake they were scraping the outside temperatures in the region of minus fifty degrees celsius the footage and more certainly breathtaking to say the least at r.t. dork. speak your language. programs

and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks of the r.p. interviews for intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit arabic t.v. dot com. it's good to have you with us here in our to you today the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad says tehran can offer cash strapped egypt a loan to help boost its economy it's also called for the formation of a strategic alliance with cairo saying that outside forces are preventing the two nations from reaching understanding his comments came during an historic visit to the country with shame to rekindle relations after more than three decades of diplomatic silence the two nations severed ties after iran's islamic revolution back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine relations worse and further following egypt's peace treaty with israel but more of suzy usa did rise to power after the

uprising was seen as a major hurdle to better links with tehran which is strongly opposed to the current revolt in syria journalist neil clark believes keeping the door open to iran shows caro is pursuing a more independent foreign policy than its alstad leader hosni mubarak. ran strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a brutal ally of iran in the region why pro israel lobby why the americans while the saudis are sector are so keen to talk. now there's no such moment the syrian government is about where it's going around would be even more isolated than east today and the area is very dangerous so that's what makes sense for iran to be trying. and there's no way that the americans are going to look. with anything other than horror and the idea that. egypt could replace syria as a loyal friend of iran is a long way to the future now so i think iran's got to be very careful doesn't want

to get to toulouse or syria and should be to carry on supporting syria but that doesn't mean of course that it can't try to build. mosques point of view i think as we see in r.t. all the rest of egypt people are very happy with how things are going legacy and carry on a look at it and ship people are on iran in one way that she can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think from his point he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line toward iran and from iranian point of view course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really commie is a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get. the u.k. government is said to be considering the use of special black boxes to record people's internet activities though all the name of national security the plans of radical privacy advocates up in arms to discuss

a further we're now joined live by emma carr the difference director of a big brother watch a pleasure to see you today thanks for coming out i could can you just a explain it to me here how exactly is it supposed to work in practice are we talking literally every email and skype call being recorded. yeah that's exactly what we're talking about the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain well other than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes they're going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned so you're in london at the moment and any reaction from the british public or to this news so far is it just a bit too serious. well this is being in the media and on the table with the government since last april and it's been receiving quite a lot of media attention as you can imagine the people in great person don't like

the source of the government collecting all of their communications in this way from their point of view it goes against the very basis of the democrat democratic institution that is our parliament and this isn't in any sort of drugs and. you talk about violations of constitution that i mean they're going to be some of that will argue that in the interests of national security possibly to prevent attacks like the seven seven bombings when perhaps it's not such a bad thing if all these issues are being recorded off the internet. well absolutely and not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty heroic assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to. need this information and will. react to this information if they're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's

based on fun see full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this spill get more evidence have a a much fairer that in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done but if indeed is true that the government would create black boxes to record emails and skype conversations and so on and so forth but those an argument to say that the only people who fear this perhaps are those who have something to hide. well what we've seen that with you mention the seven seven bombings is that actually the police already had two thousand people under investigation and their communications stay so was being goth a's and that just for those two thousand people they couldn't handle the amount of data that was being gathered it so to do that for the entire population of great britain isn't going to actually capture anyone as far as we're concerned in the evidence would also suggest that what they need to do is they need to have an investigative lead.

investigations into who is actually committing crimes and then look at the data and be using the one point eight million pounds that billion pounds so that has been earmarked for this project to make better better tools that can be used to look at this data and actually larger manpower burnished hogan how he was in charge of the met police themselves and said what we have at the moment a small green screen than i pads or so to bring in new laws to replace the laws that we already have when those ones don't work at the moment i think is a few steps too far as far as i can see it's good you think there's anything that any of us can do if indeed it comes to the fact that our e-mails are going to be kept in a black box or are skype calls are going to be recorded is there are we can we delete or e-mails can we get some sort of different channel to have the squad conversations how can we protect our own privacy in the face of the government. well this is very much an we and we shouldn't be in a situation where people feel like they have to hide things from the government when they're just going about their daily business and not committing crimes but

one of the things that came out of this and the evidence was being gathered for the spill is that encryption is a very widely used tool by people who communicate via the internet and actually that's going to make the kind of inspection of the communications that we have very very difficult for the government and the internet service providers who are going to be asked to gather all of this information. all right and i call the deputy director of the big brother watch live from london thank you for joining us you're not see today. or i don't but half an hour's time my colleague bill daughters here but before bill that's going to be his guests are doing what's next after israel's apparent bombing of syria talk just a sec.